If it could be arranged that the stranger should certainly lose, no doubt then he would be regarded as a godsend.

Such strangers have ready money in their pockets, a portion of which would be felt to descend like a soft shower in a time of drought.

When these dealings in unsecured paper have been going on for a considerable time real bank notes come to have a loveliness which they never possessed before.

But should the stranger win, then there may arise complications incapable of any comfortable solution.

In such a state of things some Herr Vossner must be called in, whose terms are apt to be ruinous.